Teaching kids is hard work. Not only do you have to teach the little humans with short attention spans—a task also difficult for said humans with short attention spans when they have to teach themselves—but you’ve got to figure out what to teach and how to teach it. And with kids learning such a wide breadth and depth of knowledge, not all of which is relevant to every student later on in life,* it’s only natural that some of the things that do stick with us are pop culture-related.
*I hear this all the time: “Why did I learn algebra in school; I don’t use it.